WHARF RIOTS
IN SOUTH SHIELDS AFFRAY. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 22 “It pays other people to stir up trouble in our country,” said Judge Roche when sentencing five whites and 17 Arbas to terms ranging from three to sixteen months imprisonment in. connection with the South Shields riots on August 21st. He recommended that sixteen of the Arabs should be deported. Asked whence the money supporting the minority movement was derived, a -Police Inspector replied that one of the accused was the member of a delegation to a conference in Russia; Judge Roche, “That’s what I generally find.”
Commenting on the statement that two. whites leading the trouble were professional agitators. Judge Roche said:—“They took care to be away when the trouble came. They are all cowards really.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 6
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131WHARF RIOTS Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 6
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